A MOTHER accused of murdering her 14-month-old daughter wanted an abortion after finding out she was carrying a girl, a court has heard.

Shagufta Yasmin claimed that Sadia Ahmed “cried a lot” when she discovered she was expecting a daughter.

The witness was giving evidence at the trial at the High Court in Glasgow of 28-year-old Ahmed, who denies murdering her daughter, Inaya, at the family home in the city.

Mrs Yasmin, the child’s aunt, told prosecutor Paul Kearney: “When Sadia discovered she was going to have a daughter she wasn’t happy. She cried a lot. She used to say she wanted a son, not a daughter.

“She said she wanted an abortion. We said: ‘Have faith in God and he might give her a son next time.’

When Sadia discovered she was going to have a daughter she wasn’t happy

Shagufta Yasmin

“We said: ‘If you wish to have an abortion that’s your decision. But we’re happy with whatever it is.” The 45-year-old witness said that on the day of the incident – Sunday, April 17 last year – she spoke to Ahmed in her bedroom after they had returned from the hospital.

Inaya, who lived in Glasgow’s Drumchapel, died several days later at the city’s Royal Hospital for -Children.